This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies (2007 Avalos/Melcher/Schipper), edited volume

This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies (2007) is a volume edited by Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper.

Abstract

Published in Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2007.

The origins of the disabled body: disability in ancient Mesopotamia / Neal H. Walls.
Deformity and disability in Greece and Rome / Nicole Kelley
Introducing sensory criticism in biblical studies: audiocentricity and visiocentricity / Hector Avalos
"Be men, O Philistines" (1 Samuel 4:9): iconographic representations and reflections on female gender as disability in the ancient world / Carole R. Fontaine
Masculinity and disability in the Bible / Thomas Hentrich

Part Two - Biblical texts and disability studies

The normate hermeneutic and interpretations of disability within the Yahwistic narratives / Kerry H. Wynn
Disabling Israelite leadership: 2 Samuel 6:23 and other images of disability in the Deuteronomistic history / Jeremy Schipper
With whom do the disabled associate?: metaphysical interplay in the Latter Prophets / Sarah J. Melcher
"Living among the tombs" : society, mental illness, and self-destruction in Mark 5:1-20 / Holly Joan Toensing
"For whenever I am weak, then I am strong": disability in Paul's epistles / Martin Albl

Responses

Enabling the body / Janet Lees
"Jesus thrown everything off balance": disability and redemption in biblical literature / David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder
Impairment as a condition in biblical scholarship : a response / Bruce C. Birch

Conclusion / Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper